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CLARK GABLE
JEANETTE MACDONALD
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MOLLISON'S PLANS BITTEN BY SNAKE
NEW YORK: CROYDON
AND JOHANNESBURG
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936.
Autogyro's Vertical Leap
CAN LAND ON
A ROOF
Triumph
A
After Fifteen Years' Effort
By An Air Correspondent
London, Aug. 10.
N aeroplane was at rest on, Hounslow Heath yesterday, its propeller whir- ring, its pilot in the cockpit.
Suddenly 1,8501b, of machine and man shot up vertically 30ft., hesitated as though suspended by a wire, and flew away.
It was a triumph for Señor Juan de in Cierva, the autogyro inventor, and his latest model."
Mr. H. A. Marsh's demonstration of the new direct take-off machine astonished. a large gathering of representatives of the aviation in- dustry and foreign Governments.
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This success for Señor de la Cierva-who was there is the culmination of, 15 years' constant work. The Einstein of aviation, he has achieved what experts have talked about but considered| Impossible.
Two machines were demonstrate 1. One is a two-seater priced it about $1,000, and the other; a single-text "baby" autogyro, built by G. J. Weir, Ltd., of Glasgow, fitted with a 60 hẹp. engine. to sell at about £500.
These new types have only two rotor blades instead of four in the ease of the early machines
and three in the last model.
Spectators fell silent in astonish- ment as Mr. Marsh took the big ma chine up.
He made a circuit of the aerodrome, came down within a few feet over the same patch of ground,-hovered there for a second and then sat down gently, not running forward an inch. He repeated the demonstration on the smaller marlline,
This new autogyro, claimed to be simpler to fly than any other aircraft, heralds a new era in aviation.
It can land and take-off on al- most any surface and in the sinal- lest space. The roof landing and take-off is now possible.
When Senor de la Clerva brought his first muchine to England more than ten years ugo, most people
laughed.
duced the direct-control autogyro
AWAITING SPIRIT OF SLAIN KIN
Mist Elko Takahashil, daughter of the late Japanese Foreign Minister Karekiyo Takahashi, before a shrine erected to her father awaiting return of his spirit during the Obon Festival, or Fertival of the Dead. The finance minister was one of the high-ranking Japanese statesmen slain during a revolt of army officers early this
year.
ENFIELD DOCTOR
BAFFLED
UNHAPPINESS
:
IS
FOR
BRITISH GIRLS
An "enormous increase" in fatness among elementary
He worked on, In 1933, he pro- schoolchildren is worrying an Enfield doctor because "it without fixed wing, ailerons, rudder causes so much mental unhappiness, especially in the case
elevators. All movement was of the older girl." controlled by the single stick attached! In his annual report Dr. Dennis Geffen, medical officer of Enfield education authority, mentions this tragedy behind the lines of the comic song, "Nobody loves a fat girl."
RED RULER
One Enfield girl of 16 weighs. 16 store, and a boy of 14 is even heavier, he, says,
.
"Neither Dr. Forrester (assistant medical afliver) or 1." Plates the report, "can account for this sudden increase, and we sabuk be interested to know-whether-it-is-common-throughout the country."
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Since 1933, when nine children suffering from obesity came under figure suddenly observation, the
| General's Daughter jumped to it in 1935.
to Wed Major
Eleonore
LESS EXERCISE Alarmed at the increase, Dr. For- rester has had all the cases under observation, but sensitiveness
both
The engagement is announced of on the parts of parents and children, Gough, who resent answering questions re- Miss Myrtle daughter of General Sir Hubert de la garding family history and personal Poer Gough and of Lady Gough, of habits, is handicapping research. Elin Park-gardens, S.W., and Major Conclusions renched are:
son of the late Eric A. T. Dutton, Rev. Charles and Mrs. Helen Dutton,
Major Dutton has done important administrative work in Kenya, and in 1930 was private secretary to the
Governor.
He is reputed to be the only man who has ever fallen Into the Victoria Stalin. the strong man of Soviet Falls, on the Zambesi River, without Russia, photographed at a political being drowned. meeting in Muscow.
New Death Ray Is Success
"Now I've got a batch of fool-proof! fuses and I can guarantee it will work every time. I probably could burn the wall right out of the building if turned wide open."
A
departmen! fire suspicious thought so too after reading some lurid accounts of the machine, and ordered. La hurried Investigation into possible peril for spectators. They seem.l satisfied that all would be able to escape, and permitted it to go on us 1cheduled.
Well-to-do and poor children are equally affected.
Boys more frequently affected thon
girls.
All except one are above average height.
Sixty per cent. are of average In- telligence; 20 per cent, dull.
Eleven cases have definite history of obesity in the family.
Many of the cases, thinks Dr. For- rester, are the result of errors in dlet and modern methods of living.
"Children get less bodily exercise year by year," says the report. "They spend long hours in school and often have no walk to get there..... More
ind more chlidren use omnibuses or ears than formerly."
Dr. Geffen said:
"We do not wish to give the im- pression that all the schoolchildren In Enfield are abnormally fat: These 41 cases represent a tiny minority.
condition of
"There is no actual discase apparent,”
PROPOSED LOAN
GOVERNMENT AGAINST
PEDESTRIAN IN KING'S PARK IN SERIOUS CONDITION
San Diego, Aug. 30. According to a Police report, a London, Sept. 17, Chinese innle, Wong Leung, of 45 Professor Harry May, inven- Tae ray machle, a fearsome affair Mr. Mollison told Reuter the der Shanghal Street was admitted to the tor-showman, pronounced his that any Hollywood designer would ite of an ambitious programme be- gianing in one
"death ray" a complete success as have been mighty proud to father, nonth when he Kowloon Hospital suffering from
to bite by a poisonous snake. It ap- from New York
it blew up its 470th consecutive boks like a cross between a trench hopes to fly
. CHINESE PROPOSAL mortar and an electric range, and i Croydon in 17 hours and then try pears that Wong was making his way
through some grass in n pathway toy balloon with an impressive nid to achieve its startling results near the Recreio Football ground
burst of smoke and flame. to beat any new record which may
About through o "focus of magnetic power:"
a month ago the Trade be made in the Johannesburg, ale when he felt a sharp ating on his
the South African
The professor had a little The professor makes only modest Recovery Enquiry Committee of the Chinese Chumber of Commerce sub- race for which millionaire. Mr. Schlesinger, right leg.
trouble with his lethal beam. claims for his presuat ray, an appromitted a memorandum to the Hong- He looked down but could not see
Imate 60 footer produced by the 12-1 offering prizes of an aggregate of
however, at his world premiere) foot long gun, saying it is just a baby kong. Government making the sug-
gestion that
trade n
loan
of £10,000 after which he will. By what had bitten him. He then feit faint, and with the help of some
at the California Exposition.compared to the ones which surely $30,000,000 be issued to the pubtle. round the world at the equator.
He will be entirely alone in all people passing at the time managed
The memorandum was submlited to Spectators tittered, walked out will be used in war time. to get to the Yaumati Police Station,
or offered pertinent advice as it the high. Mollized is using a new where the police removed him to the
He seemed highly insulted at the Governor In Council through the American monoplane,
Hospital. After hearing what the
refusedieven to dent 'a' balloon, sceptical question if it might not ali Kon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall who dis- which is reputed to be capable of man had to say the Police themselves
but now it is working fine and be just a good trick, so that line of cussed the matter with his Chipes colleagues on the Legislative Couneli doing miles per hour,
are rather vague as to what actually
Alter consideration, the Govern- he says they are as easy to hit questioning was dropped,
"It will destroy termites, burn
ment have disapproved of the as the big tin ducks in a shoot-through solid plates of steel and blow ing gallery.
ur balloons, but is a short rango Job suggestion. A letter. to this effect The blue-eyed, sparsely thatched A really big one could play havoc s been sent to the Chinese Chom- professor, his blende goatee bobbing with battleships, airplanes or barbed per of Commerce by Mr. Rotewall, Informing the Chamber that their expressively over a thimble-sized wire calanglements," I
"Will It fry eggs?" a half-awash proposal had been turned down.
When members of the Chamber's brandy in an exposition cafe, explain-
following a performance that gentleman at the next table peered Trade Recovery Enquiry Committee minor mechanical difficulties which around a beer mug to ask.
The professor ignored the heckler, met yesterday afternoon, Mr. Kote- had caused him somo.. slight an-
wall's letter was read by
the barrassment the first night all had but admitted later it might not be Secretary, Mr. 11. Y. Tso. A discus- such a bad idea, at that--United sion followed before the meeting was been ironed out successfully.
"The fuses weren't loaded," he said, Press.
adjourned.
with
4056 miles sangh, but the Johan-bit the man, but they assume that netur al race is restricted
it must have been a snake. Bistub scoutlines-Reuter,
zation tener adife that James] Walliams will add tile atomson for stage of his flight. He hopes to break Tiny Tuck · He fuper de achterve the the record of both singes.
· flagfiti matemem ther Atlantis lip seventeen 11 he succeeds the next venture Iran, and, if weather permilk, will may be a round the world flight. Sulke ali albora Caronty-four hours He has already flown the Atlantic haber vn the Leaden-South Africa in both directions.
Printed and Published: for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY KMANKLIN, HA-1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria
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